The instructions by Uel still work, but use grub-update instead vliloconf if you use Grub.Please do not remove your old kernel until you are sure the new one works.Reboot and pick the new Kernel, test again for the ptrace setting.Let us know how that goes.

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Okay, so I enabled the untested repository, and via Gslapt did an update followed by "mark all upgrades". Is this correct? Some other packages besides the kernel ones are marked, so should I proceed, or should I just specifically upgrade the kernel packages and not touch the others? The others being p11-kit 0.14-i586-1vl70, gnutls 3.10.10-x86-1vl70, php 5.4.19-i586-1vl70.

Okay, so I enabled the untested repository, and via Gslapt did an update followed by "mark all upgrades". Is this correct? Some other packages besides the kernel ones are marked, so should I proceed, or should I just specifically upgrade the kernel packages and not touch the others? The others being p11-kit 0.14-i586-1vl70, gnutls 3.10.10-x86-1vl70, php 5.4.19-i586-1vl70.

Mark, we dont use gslapt for kernel upgrades, because gslapt replaces the old package with the new one, and if the new kernel doesnt work you cant boot anymore. You need to follow the procedure described by Uel in the link provided by Sledge. Please post back if you find any problems.

EDIT: you can apply the other updates anyway, they are safe and they fix a number of security advisories, they will be moved to patches soon.

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"There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite."Jorge Luis Borges, Avatars of the Tortoise. --Jumalauta!!

I won't use Gslapt, and instead will specifically install the kernel packages rather than upgrade them, to keep the old ones just in case. So, I'll start with the kernel packages, then test, and then upgrade php and gnutls and add p11-kit after. Well, here goes.....

"dev/sdb1" is an older secondary hard drive. On the primary hard drive, it seemed to work, though I don't know if the message "No volume groups found" is something I should worry about. Well, I'll know soon enough.

ETA: Was typing the above before I got rbistolfi's latest message. So, I did maintain the older kernel images, and I'll now upgrade the newer packages of php and gnutls and add the p11-kit package too.

ETA:Hmm, I'm thinking I made an error even using "slapt-get --no-upgrade -i" to do it. Before rebooting, I'll try instead to exactly follow the steps outlined in HOWTO: Upgrade Kernel link, which I should have done from the start.

ETA: Okay, so I reinstalled all the older 3.0.8 kernel stuff via installpkg, and reran grub-update. Hopefully I'll still have the 3.0.8 option if the newer kernel install doesn't work. Yeah, I should have strictly followed the HOWTO from the beginning. Anyway, I'll now reboot, and see how it works.

cat /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope1I typed the above from memory rather than copying it since I'm now in a different (3.0.8) kernel. Anyway, I did get the "1" response, which is good. Here's some other feedback I got (again, typed here from handwritten notes)

The nvidia module must match your running kernel. You need to install the kernel sources for the new kernel, then re-run the nvidia installation. When you get it working on that one, it may not work on the old one. That's proprietary, binary blob drivers for you.

Tried to install the NVIDIA driver (96.43.23) that works with the 3.0.8 kernel on my system (for GeForce4 MX 4000 card), but I was unable to for the 3.10.10 kernel. I then tried the nouveau driver, but this also didn't work. So, I can't get X going with the new kernel.

ETA: I have kernel-stripped-src-3.10.10-x86-1vl70 installed, but not kernel-src-3.10.10-x86-1vl70.

Only thing that doesn't seem to work on first use is wicd wirednetwork. Wireless works fine. My wired, I think, is eth0 so I will likely figure that out. I may find other problems and will post if I do.

For mine, it worked, but I cannot get the nvidia driver installed. I got the following feedback:

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ERROR: Unable to load the kernel module 'nvidia.ko'. This happens most frequently when this kernel module was built against the wrong or improperly configured kernel sources, with a version of gcc that differs from the one used to build the target kernel, or if a driver such as rivafb, nvidiafb, or nouveau is present and presents the NVIDIA kernel module from obtaining ownership of the NVIDIA graphics device(s).

I have gcc-4.5.2-i486-2 installed, and kernel-stripped-src-3.10.10-x86-1vl70.

I didn't see any packages for 3.10.10, so I loaded nothing there, Nor did I have to run vxconf. It just worked out of the box, except as noted with the wirednetwork.

If you give me a specific request to run something, I will do so and report back to you as to what happened. I know I don't use grub nor do I dual boot with anything. I don't know what kind of drivers run my screen. I use xfce4 but learned the other day that I apparently have some part of kde running in the background.